Are you forced to buy windows in order to solve certain tasks on the internet e.g. like certain banktasks and to update garmin gps maps and other

Robert Heller heller at deepsoft.com
Thu Aug 7 13:13:30 UTC 2014


At Thu, 7 Aug 2014 10:07:09 +0300 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

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> On 31 July 2014 19:20, William Scott Lockwood III <scott at guppylog.com>
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> > On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 11:11 AM, user1 <bqz69 at telia.com> wrote:
> > > Okay.
> > > My questions was more generally when you are not an ubuntu expert
> > > When you have windows you can solve windows tasks easy.
> > > What I mean is there are lots of tasks made only for windows and mac,
> > > seems like several companies do not bother to make tasks suitable for
> > > linux as it probably costs too much to make and maintain and there are
> > > too few linux users in the world?
> > > As I see it Windows thus force people to buy windows even if they are
> > > only using linux (but secretly the backdoor way)?
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> > My opinion is no. I do everything on Linux, including playing windows
> > games. And Open or Libre Office handles common file formats like .docx
> > just fine.
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> >
> Really? I find docx with any tables or images or diagrams heavily distorted
> when opened in [Open,Libre]Office. And pptx is worse of them all. Font size
> changes across multiple slides, over flowing text, background sporadically
> applied across different slides... Looks like to work with certain M$
> office files, you need M$ office :-(

The great myth about 'WYSIWYG': it is a lie.  Word processing files almost 
always look *different* on different computers, even when running the *same* 
operating system version and the same version of the word processing software. 
All it takes is a *different* printer or different accortment of fonts 
installed or different video card or different sized monitor.  Sharing word 
processing files can often be disasterious.


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